{"id":5675,"date":"2012-05-14T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T13:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2012-05-31T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:34:53","slug":"florida-the-sunshine-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/florida-the-sunshine-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida, the Sunshine State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of May 14, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Florida, the Sunshine State<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the News<\/em>: Summer doesn’t officially begin until June, but the temperatures are starting to rise here in the 22nd<\/sup> largest (in total area) and the 4th<\/sup> most populous state of the Union. Summer session at FAU is underway so there is no rest for the weary. However, when time allows, pick up one of these newer books and DVDs on Florida.<\/p>\n

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The 57 Club: My Four Decades in Florida Politics<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Frederick B. Karl. UP of Florida, 2010
\nCall Number: F316.23 .K37 A3 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

90 Miles <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\n<\/em>Directed by Juan Carlos Zaldivar. Phonograph Films, 2007
\nCall Number: E184 .C97 A17 2007<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)
\nCuban-born filmmaker recounts the strange fate that brought him as a groomed young communist to exile in Miami in 1980 during the dramatic Mariel boatlift. The story of an immigrant family and how the historical forces around them shaped their personal relationships and attitudes towards the world around them.<\/p>\n

The 2008 Elections in Florida: Change! But Only at the Top of the Ticket<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Robert E. Crew, Jr. and Slater Bayliss. UP of America, 2011
\nCall Number: JK4416 .C74 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill. Columbia TriStar, 2003
\nCall Number: HV6517 .A45 2004<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Counting on Democracy <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Danny Schechter. Bullfrog Films, 2002
\nCall Number: JK526 2000 .C68 2002<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)
\nInvestigates the disenfranchisement of voters in the 2000 Presidential election and claims that Florida governor Jeb Bush’s office tried to bury evidence of the exclusion of tens of thousands of legal voters from the voter rolls. Before the fiasco in Florida, most Americans assumed that the votes they cast would be counted in accordance with one of the fundamental principles of American democracy, yet 175,000 votes cast in that state, largely by the working poor and people of color, were uncounted. The story of the Bush-Gore presidential race plays like a drama in many acts. Set in the context of the history of voting rights violations, ‘Counting On Democracy’ asserts that a systematic pattern of behavior on the part of the Florida’s various election boards, overseen by a compromised elections department, resulted in a myriad of lost votes. What emerges is a shocking but very clear picture of political interests cynically ignoring and overriding the will of voters.<\/p>\n

Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida\u2019s Great Recession<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Paul Reyes. Henry Holt and Co., 2010
\nCall Number: HG2040.5 .U6 F616 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Fields of Resistance: The Struggle of Florida\u2019s Farmworkers for Justice<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Silvia Giagnoni. Haymarket Books, 2011
\nCall Number: HD1527 .F6 G35 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Lola Haskins. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: F312 .H37 2011<\/a> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Florida Civil War Blockades: Battling for the Coast<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Nick Wynne and Joe Crankshaw. History Press, 2011
\nCall Number: E600 .W96 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s Fishing Legends and Pioneers<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Doug Kelly. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: SH483 .K45 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By David Colburn and Lance deHaven-Smith. UP of Florida, 2010
\nCall Number: HN79 .F6 C65 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s Water: A Fragile Resource in a Vulnerable State<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Tom Swihart. RFF Press, 2011
\nCall Number: GB705 .F5 S94 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Gangsters of Miami: True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hit Men, Con Men and Gang Bangers from the Magic City<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Ron Chepesiuk. Barricade Books, 2010
\nCall Number: HV6452 .F7 C54 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Guy LaBree: Barefoot Artist of the Florida Seminoles<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Carol Mahler. UP of Florida, 2010
\nCall Number: ND237 .L193 M35 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Hidden Seminoles: Julian Dimock\u2019s Historic Florida Photographs<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jerald T. Milanich and Nina J. Root. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: E99 .S28 M55 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

How Florida Happened: The Political Education of Buddy MacKay<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Buddy MacKay. UP of Florida, 2010
\nCall Number: F316.23 .M33 A3 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Immigrant Prince: Mel Martinez and the American Dream<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Richard E. Foglesong. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: E901.1 .M37 F64 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Invasive Pythons in the United States: Ecology of an Introduced Predator<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Michael E. Dorcas and John D. Wilson. University of Georgia Press, 2011
\nCall Number: QL666 .O67 D667 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Key West Hemingway: A Reassessment<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Kirk Curnutt and Gail D. Sinclair. UP of Florida, 2009
\nCall Number: PS3515 .E37 Z6655 2009<\/a><\/p>\n

Landscape and Hydrology of the Predrainage Everglades<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Christopher W. McVoy et al. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: GE155 .F6 L36 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Les Standiford. Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, 2011
\nCall Number: TF24 .F6 S73 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Carlos Eire. Free Press, 2010
\nCall Number: E184 .C97 E36 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Loren Cass <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Chris Fuller. Kino International, 2009
\nCall Number: PN1997.2 .L6756 2009<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)
\nThree teens try to figure out who they are after the 1996 riots in St. Petersburg, Florida.<\/p>\n

Miami: Mistress of the Americas<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jan Nijman. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
\nCall Number: HT384 .U62 F645 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Miami Beach Deco<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Steven Brooke. Universe, 2011
\nCall Number: NA712.5 .A7 B76 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Mooney vs. Fowle <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by James Lipscomb. Docuramafilms, 2011
\nCall Number: GV956.6 .M66 2011<\/a>
\nA cinema verite study of two high school football coaches, Ottis Mooney and Haywood Fowle, pitted against each other for the Florida state championship. During pre-game chalk-talks, scrimmages, and then a big game in a packed Orange Bowl, we see how two men, intent on the same goal, try to achieve it in completely different ways. Includes scenes of the 1961 Edison vs. Miami High School championship game in the Orange Bowl.<\/p>\n

Our Signature: The Wild and Scenic Loxahatchee River <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nLive Oak Production Group, 2005
\nCall Number: QH90.75 .F6 O97 2005<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)
\nProduced as a communication tool for the Loxahatchee River Preservation Initiative, the film tells the story of the Loxahatchee River, from its earliest companions, Native Americans, to its current environmental significance. Also addresses how the river has been impacted by development and explores the ongoing restoration work being done by the Loxahatchee River Preservation Initiative to improve water quality and wildlife habitat.<\/p>\n

Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State: Down and Out in Theme Park Nation<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By James D. Wright and Amy M. Donley. Transaction Publishers, 2011
\nCall Number: HC107 .F63 P627 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Pueblos Hermanos <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and Michael Davey. Bullfrog Films, 2010
\nCall Number: E184 .G82 B76 2010<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)
\nStory of two towns linked by immigration, family, and work: Jacaltenango, a highland Maya town in Guatemala; and Jupiter, a coastal resort town in Florida, where many Jacaltecos have settled. The film chronicles a story of how and why people migrate across borders, how people make and remake their communities when they travel thousands of miles from home, and how people maintain families despite their travel. It is a story of local and international controversy.<\/p>\n

Rare and Unusual Shells of Southern Florida <\/em> – Faculty Publication<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Edward J. Petuch<\/span> and Dennis M. Sargent. Conch Republic Books, 2011
\nCall Number: QL415 .F6 P482 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Recount<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Directed by Jay Roach. HBO, 2008
\nCall Number: PN1997.2 .R4268 2008<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)
\nThe story of the 2000 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Reubin O\u2019D. Askew and the Golden Age of Florida Politics<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Martin A. Dyckman. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: F316.23 .A75 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Salvaging the Real Florida: Lost and Found in the State of Dreams<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Bill Belleville. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: F311.5 .B35 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunshine State <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by John Sayles. Columbia TriStar, 2002
\nCall Number: PN1997 .S96 2002<\/a> (At Jupiter)
\nThe rumbling approach of real estate developers on a sleepy Florida island sets the leisurely paced plot in motion.<\/p>\n

Swamplandia!
\n<\/strong><\/em>By Karen Russell. Alfred A. Knopr, 2011
\nCall Number: PS3618 .U755 S93 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Laura A. Ogden. University of Minnesota Press, 2011
\nCall Number: GF204 .F6 O44 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Sweet Cane: The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Lucy B. Wayne. University of Alabama Press, 2010
\nCall Number: F312 .W39 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Treasures of the Panhandle: A Journey through West Florida<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Brian R. Rucker. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: F317 .W5 R83 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Vernon, Florida <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Errol Morris. MGM, 2005
\nCall Number: F319 .V4 V47 2005<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)
\nCaptures the personalities of the residents of Vernon, in the Florida panhandle. Errol Morris interviews a cross-section of residents from a variety of backgrounds, the preacher to the turkey hunter.<\/p>\n

Wish You Were Here: Classic Florida Motel and Restaurant Advertising<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Tim Hollis. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: TX909 .H65 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Zora Neale Hurston\u2019s Final Decade
\n<\/em>By Virginia Lynn Moyland. UP of Florida, 2011
\nCall Number: PS3515 .U789 Z788 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

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